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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the authority of certain municipalities to alter prima |
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facie speed limits. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 545.356(b-1), Transportation Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-3), the governing |
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body of a municipality, for a highway or a part of a highway in the |
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municipality that is not an officially designated or marked highway |
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or road of the state highway system, may declare a lower speed limit |
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of not less than 20 [25] miles per hour, if the governing body |
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determines that the prima facie speed limit on the highway is |
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unreasonable or unsafe. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |